[blparent] Garlic sundae, anyone?

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

A funny thing happened this afternoon.  Sarah moved up to the four- and five-year-old class at preschool, so to celebrate, I made her an ice cream sundae.  Neopolitan ice cream, all three flavors, whipped cream, and sprinkles.  Everything went well till the sprinkles.  I had two kinds, and I took one kind out of the cupboard.  Sarah objected, so I thought she wanted the other kind.  I let her guide my hand up to the bottle she wanted.  I should have tasted or smelled the contents of the bottle, which I usually do, but I figured Sarah knew the bottle she wanted by sight.  I sprinkled the sundae generously and put the bottle away.

Then I heard a wail, "It tastes awful, Mama!  It tastes like ... yuck!"

You guessed it!  Garlic sundae.  I felt so silly.  I made another sundae, but this is one of those things we'll probably remember and laugh over for years to come.

Jo Elizabeth

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all of these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist